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Jessica Livingston Livingston at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 Born 1971 (age 53–54) Nationality American Alma mater Bucknell University (BA) Occupation(s) Businesswoman, Writer, Venture Capitalist Organization Y Combinator Known for Co-founding Y Combinator, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Notable work Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Spouse Paul Graham ...
In 2008, Michael Seibel was a key mentor to the co-founders of Airbnb and recommended them to Y Combinator. [10] [11] In 2013 he became a part-time partner at Y Combinator and joined Y Combinator as its first African-American partner in October 2014. [12] [13] He became CEO of the Y Combinator Startup Accelerator in 2016. [14]
Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive a total of $500,000 in seed money as well as advice and connections. The $500,000 in funding is made up of $125,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 7% equity and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a "most favored nation" ("MFN") provision (i.e.: "we get the same best terms you give anyone else in the ...
Y Combinator started doing so in Summer 2022, though its demo days have still been remote. (YC says its next Demo Day will be partially in-person at Pier 70, though presentations will still be online)
He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. [1] Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd , a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.
Garry Tan (Chinese: 陳嘉興; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Ka-heng; born 1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator [1] and a founder of Initialized Capital. [2] He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. [3] He was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and previously a partner at Y Combinator. [4]
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is backing its first weapons startup — a firm that says it can make missiles smaller and cheaper than its competitors. "Ares is building a new class of anti-ship ...
Since then, GiveDirectly has grown like a Y Combinator startup, its budget ballooning from $700,000 in 2012 to $17.4 million in 2014. In 2013, Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate and Facebook co-founder, hosted a coming-out party for the charity with the heads of Dropbox and General Catalyst Partners.